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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.12

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 6: Sutīkṣṇa’s hospitality. The ṛṣi offers heavenly worlds and a forest home, Rāma declines a long stay because hunting the resident deer would distress his host

In the sequence: Rāma says he will earn those for himself and asks instead for a place to live, explaining that Śarabhaṅga sent him

3.6.12

tam ugratapasaṃ dīptaṃ maharṣiṃ satyavādinam
pratyuvācātmavān rāmo brahmāṇam iva vāsavaḥ

To that great seer of fierce austerity, resplendent and truth-speaking, the self-possessed Rāma replied, as Vāsava (Indra) to Brahmā:

Words: tam — to that; ugratapasaṃ — of fierce austerity; dīptaṃ — resplendent; maharṣiṃ — great seer; satyavādinam — truth-speaking; pratyuvācātmavān — the self-possessed one replied; rāmo — Rāma; brahmāṇam — to Brahmā; iva — as; vāsavaḥ — Vāsava (Indra)

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.